Top 200 Italian Actresses

by minalex | created - 05 Sep 2013 | updated - 2 months ago | Public

1. Lydia De Roberti

Actress | Nerone e Agrippina

Lydia De Roberti is known for Nerone e Agrippina (1914), The Last Days of Pompeii (1908) and Bianco contro negro (1913).

2. Mirra Principi

Actress | Galileo Galilei

Mirra Principi was born on December 26, 1871 in Locarno, Switzerland. She is known for Galileo, Inventor of the Pendulum (1909), Louis the XI (1909) and The Queen of Ninevah (1911).

3. Maria Caserini

Actress | Nerone e Agrippina

She began acting in theater productions at a young age. Her first film was in 1906 for "Cines" of Rome, in what is considered the first film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Otello", directed by Mario Caserini, her husband. She was the interpreter of "Romeo e Giulietta" in 1908 and then in other ...

4. Fernanda Negri Pouget

Actress | Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei

Fernanda Negri Pouget was born on March 28, 1889 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1913), Hamlet (1908) and Ma non è una cosa seria (1921). She was married to Armand Pouget. She died on February 17, 1955 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

5. Italia Almirante-Manzini

Actress | Hedda Gabler

Italia Almirante-Manzini was born on June 3, 1890 in Taranto, Puglia, Italy. She was an actress, known for Hedda Gabler (1920), Ironie della vita (1917) and La piccola parrocchia (1923). She was married to Amerigo Manzini. She died on September 15, 1941 in São Paulo, Brazil.

6. Lidia Quaranta

Actress | Beffa di Satana

Lidia Quaranta was born on March 6, 1891 in Turin, Italy. She was an actress, known for Beffa di Satana (1915), Lo scrigno dei milioni (1914) and La corsa alla morte (1917). She died on March 5, 1928 in Turin, Italy.

7. Lyda Borelli

Actress | Malombra

Lyda Borelli was born on March 22, 1884 in Rivarolo Ligure, Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She was an actress, known for Malombra (1917), Satan's Rhapsody (1917) and Love Everlasting (1914). She was married to Vittorio Cini di Monselice. She died on June 1, 1959 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

8. Pauline Polaire

Actress | Maciste all'inferno

Pauline Polaire was born on June 30, 1904 in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Maciste in Hell (1925), Le dernier pardon (1913) and La dame de Monsoreau (1913). She died on February 11, 1986 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

9. Lia Franca

Actress | Gli uomini, che mascalzoni...

Born in Trieste, Franca started her career winning a beauty contest, "Miss Trieste", in 1927. Eager to pursue a film career, Franca moved to Turin, where she tried without success, and finally moved to Rome where she started her brief career. She debuted in 1930 with the short film Arietta Antica, ...

10. Isa Miranda

Actress | Le mura di Malapaga

Isa Miranda was one of the most significant actresses in Europe from the 1930s-'50s. Her remarkable talent expressed itself both in cinema and theater. She reached international popularity in the 1930s, especially in France, Germany and Austria, and became the only international movie star produced...

11. Tatyana Pavlova

Actress | Creature della notte

Tatyana Pavlova was born on December 10, 1890 in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire [now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine]. She was an actress and director, known for Creature della notte (1934), Black Magic (1949) and Everybody's Woman (1934). She died on November 7, 1975 in Grottaferrata, Lazio, Italy.

12. Germana Paolieri

Actress | Il sogno di Butterfly

Germana Paolieri was born on August 29, 1906 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Dream of Butterfly (1939), The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938) and La Wally (1932). She was married to Tramarallo, Piero. She died on August 8, 1998 in Montecatini, Tuscany, Italy.

13. Maria Denis

Actress | La vie de bohème

She was born in Buenos Aires with the name of Maria Esther Beomonte in 1916. She moved to Italy when she was 16 years old and she started her career with the movie "L'arcobaleno" ("The rainbow"). She very quickly became one of the most popular and successful actresses of the 30s and the 40s, she ...

14. Elisa Cegani

Actress | Ma non è una cosa seria

Elisa Cegani was born on June 10, 1911 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. She was an actress and costume designer, known for Ma non è una cosa seria (1936), Un giorno nella vita (1946) and Eleonora Duse (1947). She died on February 23, 1996 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

15. Luisa Ferida

Actress | Amore imperiale

Luisa Ferida started as a stage actress and first appeared in films with La Freccia d'oro (1935) in a supporting role but because of her photogenic looks and talent as an actress, she soon graduated to leading parts at the end of the thirties. In 1939, whilst working on An Adventure of Salvator Rosa...

16. Adriana Benetti

Actress | C'è sempre un ma!

Adriana Benetti was born on December 5, 1919 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for C'è sempre un ma! (1943), The Bigamist (1942) and Sins of Pompeii (1950). She died on February 24, 2016 in Rome, Italy.

17. Clara Calamai

Actress | L'adultera

Clara Calamai was born on September 7, 1909 in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for L'adultera (1946), Deep Red (1975) and Obsession (1943). She was married to Leonardo Bonzi. She died on September 21, 1998 in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

18. Dhia Cristiani

Actress | Ossessione

Dhia Cristiani was born on June 27, 1921 in Dovadola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Obsession (1943), Sissignora (1942) and Via delle cinque lune (1942). She was married to Giuseppe Ventriglia. She died on July 17, 1977 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

19. Carmela Sazio

Actress | Paisà

Carmela Sazio is known for Paisan (1946) and La gran obsesión (1955).

20. Vivi Gioi

Actress | Caccia tragica

Vivi Gioi was born on January 2, 1914 in Leghorn, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for Tragic Hunt (1947), Ma non è una cosa seria (1936) and The Verona Trial (1963). She died on July 27, 1975 in Fiumicino, Lazio, Italy.

21. Lianella Carell

Actress | Ladri di biciclette

Lianella Carell was born on May 6, 1927 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), Carnal Circuit (1969) and Amore e guai (1958). She died on December 19, 2000 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

22. Elena Altieri

Actress | Ladri di biciclette

Elena Altieri was born on July 7, 1910 in Stresa, Piedmont, Italy. She was an actress, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), L'angelo bianco (1943) and Oro nero (1942). She died in 1997.

23. Alida Valli

Actress | The Third Man

Enigmatic, dark-haired foreign import Alida Valli was dubbed "The Next Garbo" but didn't live up to postwar expectations despite her cool, patrician beauty, remote allure and significant talent. Born in Pola, Italy (now Croatia), on May 3, 1921, the daughter of a Tridentine journalist and professor...

24. Carla Del Poggio

Actress | Senza pietà

At 15, while she was studying foreign languages and modern dance, she started attending the Italian school for performing arts, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome. The director Vittorio De Sica chose her for her debut role in "Maddalena, zero in condotta". At 19, she met her future ...

25. Tina Apicella

Actress | Bellissima

Tina Apicella was born on February 2, 1946 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Bellissima (1951).

26. Emma Gramatica

Actress | La damigella di Bard

Emma Gramatica was born on October 25, 1874 in Borgo San Donnino, Emilia-Romagna, Italy [now Fidenza]. She was an actress and writer, known for La damigella di Bard (1936), Miracle in Milan (1951) and L'angelo bianco (1943). She died on November 8, 1965 in Ostia, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

27. Brunella Bovo

Actress | Lo sceicco bianco

Brunella Bovo was born on March 8, 1930 in Ponso, Veneto, Italy. She was an actress, known for The White Sheik (1952), 10 canzoni d'amore da salvare (1962) and The Loves of Salammbo (1960). She died on February 21, 2017 in Rome, Italy.

28. Maria Pia Casilio

Actress | Umberto D.

Maria-Pia Casilio (5 May 1935 - 10 April 2012) was an Italian film actress, best known for her roles in "Umberto D". and "Un americano a Roma". Born in San Pio delle Camere, L'Aquila, Casilio was pretty active between 1952 and 1960, usually with the typical characterization of a querulous and naive...

29. Lina Gennari

Actress | Umberto D.

Lina Gennari was born on March 22, 1911 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Umberto D. (1952), Napoli verde-blu (1935) and The Sign of Venus (1955). She died on October 11, 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

30. Ileana Simova

Actress | Umberto D.

Ileana Simova is known for Umberto D. (1952) and Revenge of Black Eagle (1951).

31. Nada Fiorelli

Actress | Le carrosse d'or

Nada Fiorelli was born on August 17, 1919 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Golden Coach (1952), Marcella (1937) and La figlia del corsaro verde (1940). She was married to Giorgio Ferroni. She died on September 16, 1984 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

32. Yvonne Sanson

Actress | Il conformista

Yvonne Sanson was born on August 29, 1925 in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. She was an actress, known for The Conformist (1970), Chains (1949) and The Mysterious Rider (1948). She died on July 23, 2003 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

A Greek-Italian actress

33. Gina Lollobrigida

Actress | Notre-Dame de Paris

Gina Lollobrigida was born on July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, Italy. Destined to be called "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", Gina possibly had St. Brigid as part of her surname. She was the daughter of a furniture manufacturer, and grew up in the pictorial mountain village. The young Gina did some ...

34. Marisa Merlini

Actress | Il grande silenzio

Marisa Merlini was born on August 6, 1923 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Great Silence (1968), Tempo di villeggiatura (1956) and Bread, Love and Dreams (1953). She died on July 27, 2008 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

35. Anna Proclemer

Actress | Viaggio in Italia

Anna Proclemer was born on May 30, 1923 in Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. She was an actress, known for Journey to Italy (1954), Illustrious Corpses (1976) and L'idiota (1959). She was married to Vitaliano Brancati. She died on April 25, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

36. Rossana Podestà

Actress | Helen of Troy

Rossana Podestà was born on June 20, 1934 in Zliten, Murqub, Libya. She was an actress and director, known for Helen of Troy (1956), Ulysses (1954) and Le ragazze di San Frediano (1955). She was married to Marco Vicario. She died on December 10, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

37. Lucia Bosè

Actress | La signora senza camelie

Lucia Bosè was born on January 28, 1931 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Lady Without Camelias (1953), Death of a Cyclist (1955) and Story of a Love Affair (1950). She was married to Luis Miguel Dominguín. She died on March 23, 2020 in Segovia, Segovia, Castilla y León, ...

38. Anna Amendola

Actress | French Cancan

Anna Amendola is known for French Cancan (1955), Cañas y barro (1954) and Avenida Roma, 66 (1958).

39. Bruna Corrà

Actress | Muerte de un ciclista

Bruna Corrà was born on November 29, 1933 in Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. She was an actress, known for Death of a Cyclist (1955), Carovana di canzoni (1955) and Viva la rivista! (1953). She died on March 3, 2015 in Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.

40. Eleonora Rossi Drago

Actress | Estate violenta

She never found the international cross-over fame destined for Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, and most American audiences would not recognize her name, but voluptuous, visually stunning Eleonora Rossi Drago certainly made male hearts pulsate in Europe with her scores of princesses and ...

41. Giulietta Masina

Actress | Le notti di Cabiria

Born in San Giorgio di Piano, Giulietta Masina spent part of her teenage years living with a widowed aunt in Rome, where she cultivated a passion for the theater and studied for a degree in Philosophy. She began her career on the radio with the program "Terzoglio" (1942), about the adventures of ...

42. Dorian Gray

Actress | Le notti di Cabiria

Dorian Gray was born on February 2, 1931 in Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. She was an actress, known for Nights of Cabiria (1957), Mogli pericolose (1958) and Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina (1956). She died on February 15, 2011 in Torcegno, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.

43. Franca Marzi

Actress | Le notti di Cabiria

Franca Marzi was born on August 18, 1926 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for Nights of Cabiria (1957), Fortunella (1958) and The Pirates of Capri (1949). She was married to Franco Festucci. She died on March 6, 1989 in Cinisello Balsamo, Lombardy, Italy.

44. Gabriella Pallotta

Actress | Il tetto

Gabriella Pallotta was born on October 6, 1938 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Roof (1956), Hero of Rome (1964) and The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962).

45. Marisa Allasio

Actress | Poveri ma belli

She was born Maria Luisa Lucia Allasio, the daughter of Lucia Rocchietti and Federico Allasio, a successful football player (for Genoa and Torino) and latterly coach (of Bologna, Lazio and Cagliari). Educated in Genoa, Maria won a beauty pageant ("Miss Lido") at the age of fourteen. This did not go...

46. Lyla Rocco

Actress | Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby

Lyla Rocco was born on January 18, 1933 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. She was an actress, known for Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby (1958), Ça va barder (1955) and One Step to Eternity (1954). She was married to Alberto Lupo and Steve Barclay. She died in 2015.

47. Giovanna Ralli

Actress | C'eravamo tanto amati

Giovanna Ralli was born on January 2, 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974), The Mercenary (1968) and A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State (1971). She was previously married to Ettore Boschi.

48. Monica Vitti

Actress | L'avventura

Monica Vitti was born on November 3, 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for L'Avventura (1960), Red Desert (1964) and L'Eclisse (1962). She was married to Roberto Russo. She died on February 2, 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

49. Sophia Loren

Actress | La ciociara

Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...

50. Eleonora Brown

Actress | La ciociara

Eleonora Brown was born on August 22, 1948 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She is an actress and producer, known for Two Women (1960), The Last Judgment (1961) and Amore mio (1964).

51. Silvana Corsini

Actress | Mamma Roma

Silvana Corsini was born on May 15, 1941 in Italy. She is an actress, known for Mamma Roma (1962), Accattone (1961) and Tentazioni proibite (1965).

52. Franca Pasut

Actress | Accattone

Franca Pasut is known for Accattone (1961), Duel of Champions (1961) and Family Diary (1962).

53. Paola Guidi

Actress | Accattone

Paola Guidi is known for Accattone (1961).

54. Loredana Detto

Actress | Il posto

Loredana Detto was born on March 14, 1946 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Il posto (1961). She was previously married to Ermanno Olmi.

55. Anna Magnani

Actress | Roma città aperta

Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt, as some biographies claim), on March 7, 1908. She was the child of Marina Magnani and an unknown father often said to be from Alexandria, Egypt, but whom Anna herself claimed was from the Calabria region of Italy although she never knew his name. ...

56. Lilla Brignone

Actress | L'eclisse

Lilla (Adelaide) Brignone (Rome, August 23, 1913 - Milan, 24 March 1984) was an Italian actress. Even as a child she attended film sets and theaters, being the daughter of the director and the actress Lola Guido Visconti, nephew of the actress Mercedes Brignone, actor Uberto Palmarini and actor and...

57. Catherine Spaak

Actress | Il gatto a nove code

Catherine Spaak was born on April 3, 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. She was an actress and writer, known for The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971), The Easy Life (1962) and The Empty Canvas (1963). She was married to Vladimiro Tuselli, Daniel Rey, Johnny Dorelli and ...

A French-Italian Actress

58. Rina Morelli

Actress | Il gattopardo

Spanning five decades of Italian cinema, Rina Morelli's screen appearances were always interesting and powerful, but it is on the stage that she produced her most interesting and ground-breaking work. She debuted, aged seven, in 'Morte Civile' by Paolo Giacometti, directed by the famous stage actor ...

59. Sandra Milo

Actress |

During the 1950s and 1960s bosomy, scintillating, dark-haired Tunisian leading lady Sandra Milo played bored patricians, manipulative mistresses and other enticing ladies of questionable morals with typical sensuous flare in scores of Italian and French productions.

Born Elena Liliana Greco in Tunis...

60. Gabriella Giorgelli

Actress | I compagni

Gabriella Giorgelli was born on July 29, 1941 in Carrara, Tuscany, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Organizer (1963), The Police Are Blundering in the Dark (1975) and Bersaglio altezza uomo (1978).

61. Giorgia Moll

Actress | Le mépris

Giorgia Moll is one of the many beauties with whom the Italian cinema teemed in the 1950s and 1960s. Her harmonious face, her perfect brown hair and her dream measurements did not escape the talent scouts of the time and she was only seventeen when she was hired for her first film Non scherzare con...

62. Susanna Pasolini

Actress | Il vangelo secondo Matteo

Susanna Pasolini was born on March 10, 1891 in Casarsa della Delizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964). She was married to Carlo Alberto Pasolini. She died on February 1, 1981 in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.

63. Margherita Caruso

Actress | Il vangelo secondo Matteo

Margherita Caruso was born in 1950 in Italy. She is an actress, known for The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964).

64. Xenia Valderi

Actress | La romana

Xenia Valderi was born on June 21, 1926 in Split, Croatia. She was an actress, known for Woman of Rome (1954), Red Desert (1964) and Il prigioniero del re (1954). She died on November 3, 2008 in Castelnuovo di Porto, Lazio, Italy.

65. Paola Pitagora

Actress | I pugni in tasca

Paola Pitagora was born on August 24, 1941 in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She is an actress, known for Fists in the Pocket (1965), Unknown Woman (1969) and I promessi sposi (1967).

66. Liliana Gerace

Actress | Fontamara

Liliana Gerace was born on August 9, 1921 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Fontamara (1980), Adam and Eve (1983) and Un amore di Dostoevskij (1978). She died on March 15, 2010 in Sacrofano, Lazio, Italy.

67. Graziella Galvani

Actress | Pierrot le fou

Graziella Galvani was born on June 27, 1931 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Pierrot the Fool (1965), Detective Story (1970) and Unknown Woman (1969). She was married to Giustino Durano. She died on August 25, 2022 in Urbino, Marche, Italy.

68. Mara Krupp

Actress | Per qualche dollaro in più

Mara Krupp was born on October 26, 1935 in Italy. She is an actress, known for For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Big Bust-Out (1972) and Squillo (1964).

69. Femi Benussi

Actress | Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero

Femi Benussi was born on March 4, 1945 in Rovigno, Istria, Italy [now Rovinj, Istria, Croatia]. She is an actress, known for Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero (1972), Bloody Pit of Horror (1965) and La commessa (1975).

70. Claudia Cardinale

Actress | C'era una volta il West

Like many other female Italian film stars, Claudia Cardinale's entry into the business was by way of a beauty pageant. She was 17 years old and studying at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome when she entered a beauty contest, which resulted in her getting a succession of small film roles. Her earthy ...

71. Silvana Mangano

Actress | Dune

Silvana Mangano was born on April 21, 1930 in Rome, Italy and was raised in poverty during World War II. She trained as a dancer for seven years and supported herself as a model. In 1946, at age 16, she won the Miss Rome beauty pageant and through this, she obtained role in a Maria Della Costa film...

72. Stefania Sandrelli

Actress | Il conformista

She was born in Viareggio (Tuscany, Italy) on June 5th, 1946. She won a beauty contest when she was just 15 years old, which led to her first role in "Il federale" together with the great Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi. She was then cast by Germi for the Italian comedy "Divorzio all'Italiana", working ...

73. Anita Pallenberg

Actress | Barbarella

Anita Pallenberg was a model and actress best known for her involvement with The Rolling Stones in the 1960s and 1970s. She was born in 1942 to Arnold Pallenberg, a descendant of a prominent family of furniture manufacturers from Cologne, Germany, and Elfriede Paula Wiederhold, a German secretary. ...

74. Nora Ricci

Actress | Anna Karenina

Nora Ricci was born on July 19, 1924 in Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for Anna Karenina (1974), Death in Venice (1971) and Nel mondo di Alice (1974). She was married to Vittorio Gassman. She died on April 16, 1976 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

75. Maria Monti

Actress | Giù la testa

Maria Monti was born on June 26, 1935 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Duck, You Sucker! (1971), 1900 (1976) and I grandi camaleonti (1964).

76. Maria Michi

Actress | Roma città aperta

First a typist at a law firm, young Maria Michi then became an usherette at Teatro Quattro Fontane in Rome. She was in the right place to become an actress, for was soon noticed and given small parts in the company of Sergio Stofano and Diana Torreri during the 1942-1943 season. Her first major ...

77. Giovanna Galletti

Actress | Ultimo tango a Parigi

Giovanna Galletti was born on June 27, 1916 in Bangkok, Thailand. She was an actress, known for Last Tango in Paris (1972), Rome, Open City (1945) and The Loves of Hercules (1960). She died on April 21, 1992 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

78. Fiona Florence

Actress | Roma

Fiona Florence is known for Roma (1972), Genova a mano armata (1976) and Peccatori di provincia (1977).

79. Pia De Doses

Actress | Addio Kira!

Pia De Doses is known for Addio Kira! (1942), Roma (1972) and Contro la legge (1950).

80. Pupella Maggio

Actress | Amarcord

Pupella Maggio was born on April 24, 1910 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She was an actress, known for Amarcord (1973), Cinema Paradiso (1988) and Il medico della mutua (1968). She was married to Luigi Dell'Isola. She died on December 8, 1999 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

81. Valentina Cortese

Actress | La nuit américaine

Valentina Cortese was born in Milan on New Year's Day of 1923. She made her movie debut in 1940 and played many "ingenue" parts in Italian films of that period, before making a real sensation in Caccia all'uomo (1948) and Tempesta su Parigi (1948), playing both female leads, Fantine and Cosette (...

82. Mariangela Melato

Actress | Flash Gordon

Mariangela Melato was born on September 19, 1941 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Swept Away (1974) and Love & Anarchy (1973). She died on January 11, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

83. Lea Massari

Actress | L'avventura

Lea Massari was born on June 30, 1933 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for L'Avventura (1960), Murmur of the Heart (1971) and Indian Summer (1972). She has been married to Carlo Bianchini since November 13, 1963.

84. Isa Danieli

Actress | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

Isa Danieli was born on March 13, 1937 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She is an actress and assistant director, known for Cinema Paradiso (1988), Love & Anarchy (1973) and Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) (1985).

85. Agostina Belli

Actress | Profumo di donna

Agostina Belli was born on April 13, 1947 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Scent of a Woman (1974), The Career of a Chambermaid (1976) and Double Murder (1977).

86. Daria Nicolodi

Actress | Phenomena

Daria Nicolodi was born on June 19, 1949 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for Phenomena (1985), Deep Red (1975) and Tenebrae (1982). She died on November 26, 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

87. Elena Fiore

Actress | Pasqualino Settebellezze

Elena Fiore was born on July 29, 1914 in Torre Annunziata, Naples, Italy. She was an actress, known for Seven Beauties (1975), Love & Anarchy (1973) and The Seduction of Mimi (1972). She died on February 1, 1983 in Torre Annunziata, Naples, Italy.

88. Francesca Marciano

Writer | Viaggio sola

Francesca Marciano was born on July 17, 1955 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is a writer and actress, known for A Five Star Life (2013), Euphoria (2018) and The Miracle (2018).

89. Ornella Muti

Actress | Flash Gordon

Ornella Muti was born on March 9, 1955 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Oscar (1991) and The Most Beautiful Wife (1970). She was previously married to Federico Fachinetti and Alessio Orano.

90. Laura Antonelli

Actress | Passione d'amore

Laura Antonelli was born on November 28, 1941 in Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Passion of Love (1981), Malicious (1973) and The Innocent (1976). She was married to Enrico Piacentini. She died on June 22, 2015 in Ladispoli, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

91. Laura Betti

Actress | Novecento

Laura Betti was born on May 1, 1927 in Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for 1900 (1976), La Dolce Vita (1960) and Teorema (1968). She died on July 31, 2004 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

92. Francesca Bertini

Actress | Assunta Spina

Francesca Bertini was undoubtedly one of the first divas of cinema, a lady not only on screen but also in real life. She made her film debut in La dea del mare (1907) and after that producers fought for her services. In 1921 she married European nobleman and banker Alfred Cartier. She tried her ...

93. Carmen Scarpitta

Actress | La Cage aux folles

Carmen Scarpitta was born on May 26, 1933 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for La Cage aux Folles (1978), Vestire gli ignudi (1979) and Fango bollente (1975). She died on April 26, 2008 in Cabo San Lucas, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

94. Marcella Michelangeli

Actress | Il grande racket

Marcella Michelangeli was born on January 28, 1943 in Uscio, Liguria, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Big Racket (1976), I 7 di Marsa Matruh (1970) and Could It Happen Here? (1977).

95. Francesca Moriggi

Actress | L'albero degli zoccoli

Francesca Moriggi was born in 1938 in Brignano Gera d'Adda, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978). She died on September 29, 2002 in Brignano Gera d'Adda, Lombardy, Italy.

96. Jole Silvani

Actress | Lo sceicco bianco

Jole Silvani was born on December 9, 1910 in Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]. She was an actress, known for The White Sheik (1952), Il tempo dell'inizio (1974) and La famiglia Passaguai (1951). She died on October 31, 1994 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, ...

97. Edwige Fenech

Actress | Hostel: Part II

Edwige Fenech was born Edwige Sfenek on December 24, 1948, in Bone, Constantine, France, to a Maltese father and an Italian mother. She began her show-business career as a participant in beauty contests (she won the title of "Miss Mannequin de la Cote d'Azur" at age 16 and even won a Miss France ...

98. Sara Franchetti

Actress | Incubo sulla città contaminata

Sara Franchetti was born on May 15, 1946 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Nightmare City (1980), War and Remembrance (1988) and Unknown Woman (1969). She was previously married to Ettore Conti.

99. Valeria D'Obici

Actress | Passione d'amore

Valeria D'Obici was born on April 17, 1944 in Lerici, Liguria, Italy. She is an actress, known for Passion of Love (1981), Escape from the Bronx (1983) and 45th Parallel (1986).

100. Cinzia Monreale

Actress | ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà

Cinzia Monreale was born on June 22, 1957 in Genoa, Italy. She is an actress and producer, known for The Beyond (1981), Turbo (2000) and Cave of the Sharks (1978).



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